Best/Favorite Music of 2009 Thread

[iron yuppie]

Best songs in no order:

Glass by Bat For Lashes

I second this as one of the year's best. For me, however, Fever Ray's "Keep the Streets Empty for Me" takes the crown. The song has an incredible atmosphere.

 

[Joey788]

I write for a music website so I actually had to come up with a list. Lots of enjoyable music out there this year.

Now in an act of shameless self-promotion, here's a link to the music website I write for with our Top 100 Albums of 09 list.

CoS Year-End Report: The Top 100 Albums Of 2009

Sadly, the staff as a whole wasn't too kind to No Line (#100) but the list is still pretty cool.

 

[Mr. V]

I was gonna do a proper list, and still might, I think. But here's what I've got, in alphabetical:

Best Albums of 2009
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
Animal Collective - Fall Be Kind
The Antlers - Hospice
Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Doves - Kingdom of Rust
Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
Future of the Left - Travels with Myself and Another
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
The Horrors - Primary Colours
Japandroids - Post-Nothing
Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
St. Vincent - Actor
U2 - No Line on the Horizon
We Were Promised Jetpacks - These Four Walls
The Whitest Boy Alive - Rules
Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
The xx - xx
Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs

Best Songs of 2009
Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes, What Would I Want? Sky
The Antlers - Bear
Arctic Monkeys - My Propeller, Cornerstone, Dance Little Liar, Catapult
Dirty Projectors - Stillness is the Move
Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses, Lucid Dreams
Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks, While You Wait for the Others
Japandroids - Young Hearts Spark Fire
Phoenix - Love Like A Sunset
St. Vincent - Marrow
U2 - No Line on the Horizon, Moment of Surrender
Wild Beasts - All The King's Men
The xx - Pretty much everything.
Yo La Tengo - Here to Fall

Pre-2009 Music I Got Into In 2009
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
The Beatles' back catalogue... I had it before, but I didn't listen to it the way I did this year. I ensconced myself in it.
Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
David Bowie - Low
DJ Shadow - Entroducing.....
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights
Massive Attack - Protection
The National - Alligator, Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers
Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead, Meat is Murder
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation

... well when you put it like that, 2009 was a fantastic year for music.

 

[Saracene]

I don't have the greatest memory for individual songs, but here goes, in no particular order:

Florence + The Machine - Rabbit Heart (Raise it Up)
PJ Harvey & John Parish - Black Hearted Love
Fever Ray - If I Had A Heart
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero
Doves - Kingdom of Rust
Muse - Undisclosed Desires
U2 - Magnificent
The xx - Crystalised
Editors - Eat Raw Meat = Blood Drool
Peaches - Billionaire
Lily Allen - The Fear
Blue Roses - Cover Your Tracks
Neko Case - People Got a Lotta Nerve
Dead Weather - So Far from Your Weapon
Flaming Lips - Watching the Planets
Heartless Bastards - Wide Awake
St Vincent - Save Me From What I Want

 

[Elvis Presley]

Hey all, thought I would drop in and post my faves from this year. You can see them all by following the link. Thanks....

Each Note Secure Favorite Albums Of 2009 | Each Note Secure

 

[u2popmofo]

EP, you lazy link dropping SOB. Your top 3 please me. Merry Holidaysmas.

 

[u2popmofo]

I'm sure many have already seen this, but I figured I'd throw in a quick link to Pitchfork's Honorable Mentions:

Pitchfork: Staff Lists: Albums of the Year: Honorable Mention

They named 2 albums that will make my "favorites" easily, and a couple others I agree were honorable mention quality. What say the rest of you?

 

[u2popmofo]

And TinyMixTape's list:

2009: Favorite 50 Albums of 2009 - 50 Albums that Defined 2009 for TMT | STAFF FEATURES | Tiny Mix Tapes

 

[LemonMelon]

I'm sure many have already seen this, but I figured I'd throw in a quick link to Pitchfork's Honorable Mentions:

Pitchfork: Staff Lists: Albums of the Year: Honorable Mention

They named 2 albums that will make my "favorites" easily, and a couple others I agree were honorable mention quality. What say the rest of you?

Ha, The-Dream was a pleasant surprise. Here We Go Magic, The Big Pink, and Morrissey also released good albums. So no, not a bad list at all.

 

[U2isthebest]

Favorite Albums in no particular order except for the first one

1. No Line On The Horizon-U2
2. It's Blitz!-Yeah Yeah Yeahs
3. Working On A Dream-Bruce Springsteen
4. 21st Century Breakdown-Green Day
5. It's Not Me, It's You-Lily Allen
6. Relapse-Eminem
7. Fantasies-Metric
8. Far-Regina Spektor
9. Manners-Passion Pit
10. Abnormally Attracted To Sin-Tori Amos
11. The Fame Monster-Lady Gaga
12. The Blueprint 3-Jay-Z
13. The Resistance-Muse
14. Backspacer-Pearl Jam
15. For Your Entertainment-Adam Lambert

 

[u2popmofo]

Favorite Albums in no particular order except for the first one

1. No Line On The Horizon-U2

So you'd say U2 is the best, then?

Heyooooooooooo and stuff.

 

[U2isthebest]

So you'd say U2 is the best, then?

Heyooooooooooo and stuff.

I c whut you did thar.

 

[u2popmofo]

 

[phanan]

Hey all, thought I would drop in and post my faves from this year. You can see them all by following the link. Thanks....

Each Note Secure Favorite Albums Of 2009 | Each Note Secure

EP, you lazy link dropping SOB. Your top 3 please me. Merry Holidaysmas.

His top four really pleases me.

 

[joyfulgirl]

going shopping

 

[u2popmofo]

His top four really pleases me.

I haven't heard #4 (or even a song by them).

 

[LMP]

I haven't heard #4 (or even a song by them).

Get on it. Their earnestness would make early '80s Bono blush, and they damn near blew the roof off of the venue I saw them at. Unexpected and fucking awesome.

 

[bono_212]

I'll throw my hat into the "Get on that" ring.

 

[corianderstem]

Can't wait to explore more of the stuff on these lists when I get back home!

I heard that Big Pink album and kind of dug it. I need to give it a few more listens.

 

[If you shout...]

Good album, terrible live band.

 

[u2popmofo]

Pitchfork's 50-26 were put up today:

Pitchfork: Staff Lists: The Top 50 Albums of 2009

 

[u2popmofo]

And Allmusic's Favorites of 2009:

The Allmusic Blog � AllMusic’s Favorite Albums of 2009


Matias Aguayo - Ay Ay Ay
Lily Allen - It’s Not Me, It’s You
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Antipop Consortium - Fluorescent Black
Dan Auerbach - Keep It Hid
Baroness - Blue Record
Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
The Black Crowes - Before the Frost/Until the Freeze
Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
Brandi Carlile - Give Up the Ghost
Julian Casablancas - Phrazes for the Young
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
Rosanne Cash - The List
Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications
Dälek - Gutter Tactics
Dâm-Funk - Toeachizown
The Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Drake - So Far Gone (Explicit)
The-Dream - Love vs Money
Bob Dylan - Together Through Life
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
The Fiery Furnaces - I’m Going Away
Flaming Lips - Embryonic
Jan Garbarek Group - Dresden: In Concert
Girls - Album
Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Hudson Mohawke - Butter
Shafiq Husayn - Shafiq En’ A-Free-Ka
Japandroids - Post-Nothing
Norah Jones - The Fall
Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon: The End of Day
King Midas Sound - Waiting for You
La Roux - La Roux
Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster
Miranda Lambert - Revolution
Sondre Lerche - Heartbeat Radio
Little Boots - Hands
Madness - The The Liberty of Norton Folgate
Major Lazer - Guns Don’t Kill People… Lazers Do
Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Maxwell - BLACKsummers’night
Mika - The Boy Who Knew Too Much
Mos Def - The Ecstatic
Os Mutantes - Haih…Ou Amortecedor…
Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
David “Fathead” Newman - The Blessing
Brad Paisley - American Saturday Night
Pelican - What We All Come to Need
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
A Place to Bury Strangers - Exploding Head
Roberto Juan Rodriguez - The First Basket
St. Vincent - Actor
Shakira - She Wolf
Sonic Youth - The Eternal
Sunn 0))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years
The Swell Season - Strict Joy
David Sylvian - Manafon
Tanya Morgan - Brooklynati
Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
Allen Toussaint - The Bright Mississippi
Moritz von Oswald Trio - Vertical Ascent
Wale - Attention Deficit
Sara Watkins - Sara Watkins
Weezer - Raditude
Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
The xx - XX
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It’s Blitz!
Various Artists - 5 Years of Hyperdub

Classical Releases
Gerd Albrecht - Hans Werner Henze: Gogo no eiku
Lief Ove Andsnes - Shadows of Silence
Artemis Quartet - The Piazzolla Project
Cecilia Bartoli, Il Giardino Armonico - Sacrificium
Bartosz Cajler, Symphony Orchestra of the Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic in Bialystok, Marcin Naleçz-Niesiolowski - Alexandre Tansman: Cinq Pièces; Violin Concerto; Suite Baroque
Cinquecento - Jacobus Vaet: Missa Ego flos campi
Dallas Wind Symphony - Lincolnshire Posy: Music for Band by Percy Grainger
Forde Ensemble - Spohr: Double Quartets Nos. 1 & 2
John Eliot Gardiner, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique - Brahms: Symphony No. 2
Hildegurls - Electric Ordo Virtutum
Paul Hillier - David Lang: The Little Match Girl Passion
Phil Kline - John the Revelator
Gidon Kremer, Martha Argerich - The Berlin Recital
Kronos Quartet - Floodplain
Sir Charles Mackerras, Staatskapelle Dresden, Staatsopernchor Dresden - Schubert: Messe in Es; Mozart: Vesparae Solennes de Confessore
Jun Märkl - Messiaen: Poèmes pour Mi; Les offrandes oubliées; Un sourire
Maki Namekawa & Dennis Russell Davies - Philip Glass: Piano Music
Jonathan Nott, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra - Mahler: Symphony No. 9
Ralf Otto, Mainz Bach Choir - Mozart: Requiem (edited by Robert D. Levin)
Maria João Pires - Chopin
Bente Vist - Per Nøgärd: Seadrift
Xiayin Wang - Scriabin: Piano Music
Alastair Willis, Nashville Symphony Orchestra & Chorus - Maurice Ravel: L’Enfant et les sortilèges; Shéhérazade
Benjamin Zander, Philharmonia Orchestra - Bruckner: Symphony No. 5

 

[powerhour24]

There's way too little attention being paid to Doves on here. That's all I have to say for the moment, I've certainly got some catching up to do, but first, an essay!

 

[bono_212]

Pitchfork's 50-26 were put up today:

Pitchfork: Staff Lists: The Top 50 Albums of 2009

...The Blood Bank EP is better than Manners. Hospice, Popular Songs, Junior, etc.?

 

[u2popmofo]

Apparently it received more votes from their staff members than the others did, or how ever they decide these things. Including EP's in an album list seems a little weird to me, but who am I to judge.

 

[bono_212]

Apparently it received more votes from their staff members than the others did, or how ever they decide these things. Including EP's in an album list seems a little weird to me, but who am I to judge.

I mean, there were like 4 songs on that EP weren't there? And, imo, only one of them was any good, one was decent, and the rest I've never listened to since I originally got it.

But yeah, an EP never should've been included in an albums list anyways :judges:

 

[LemonMelon]

Blood Bank is pretty shitty. Not shitty enough to make me grateful for Unmap though.

 

[U2isthebest]

Somehow I managed to forget Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix and Together Through Life. They're both definitely on my list.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

THE FORK!'s Top 10 is out. Pretty predictable. I need to hear the Raekwon album.

Pitchfork: Staff Lists: The Top 50 Albums of 2009

 

[bono_212]

THE FORK!'s Top 10 is out. Pretty predictable. I need to hear the Raekwon album.

Pitchfork: Staff Lists: The Top 50 Albums of 2009

That top ten is just...insane. I don't even know how to feel about that one . They're all albums I liked for the most part, but it's the placement I find odd.